Picasa offers everyone 1 GB of storage for photos and videos, and its paid storage is pretty cheap, too. Now it's even cheaper, because the service has stopped counting photos under 800 pixels wide, or videos less than 15 minutes, against users' storage counts.

The change was announced unofficially in a Google user forum, from a user surprised to see his storage count suddenly drop. A Google employee explained that Google no longer cares to count smaller images and videos in Picasa, although Gmail still tallies up every byte. Good news, especially if you happen to have a lot of older, lower-resolution photos in need of backing up.